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Get Ready to Explore New Avenues

Gate Avenue, the new retail and fashion experience brought to you by DIFC extends from The Gate Building to Central Park Towers, providing a seamless, fully connected year-round walkable destination including an outdoor promenade. Furthering the Centre’s reputation for iconic architecture, Gate Avenue is introducing over 185 retail, dining, fashion and lifestyle concepts.

Shop

Bringing together an eclectic retail mix that consists of leading regional and international stores, Gate Avenue will showcase established global brands and homegrown concepts alike. Whether you want a first-look at the newest fashion trends, homeware or lifestyle offerings, Gate Avenue has something for everyone.

The dedicated 4,000 square foot Design House, centrally located in Gate Avenue, is a collective retail space that will be home to a selection of hand-picked local SMEs looking to grow their business in a dynamic and exciting new environment.

Dine

The rich tapestry of gastronomy across the DIFC District, which includes internationally acclaimed restaurants such as Zuma and La Petite Maison, continues throughout Gate Avenue. Reflecting the DIFC community’s affinity with Dubai’s food-centric population, the aesthetic design of the development and eclectic choice of edible options available to visitors is vast and exciting.

Play

Never a dull moment at Gate Avenue, a roster of events and activations covering art, fashion, food, theatre, design and music will keep the urban living development alive throughout the seasons. From countless entertainment options, to state-of-the-art fitness facilities, there is no other place quite like Gate Avenue.

Discover

Art, culture and heritage abound against the modern architecture and landscaping of Gate Avenue. Set amongst the lush greenery of the Promenade level, the DIFC Art Integration Programme will extend from the Gate Building, giving visitors the opportunity to take in the works of some of the world’s most revered artists and sculptors.

In addition, the iconic DIFC Grand Mosque, scheduled to open in 2019, will welcome over 500 worshippers 24 hours a day and serve all five daily prayer times, Friday and Ramadan prayers.

Dubai International Financial Centre

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is one of the world’s top financial centres, and the leading financial hub for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. The Centre provides a world-class platform connecting the region’s markets with the economies of Europe, Asia and the Americas and facilitates growth in South-South trade and investment. An onshore, international financial centre, DIFC offers a stable, mature and secure base for financial institutions to develop their wholesale businesses.

The Centre offers all the elements found in the world’s most successful financial industry ecosystems, including an independent regulator and judicial system with a common-law framework, a global financial exchange, inspiring architecture, powerful, enabling support services and a vibrant business community. The infrastructure within the district features ultra-modern office space, retail outlets, cafes and restaurants, art galleries, residential apartments, public green areas and hotels.

Located midway between the global financial centres of New York, London in the West and Singapore, Hong Kong in the East, DIFC (GMT +4) fills a vital time-zone gap with a workday that bridges the market and business hours of financial centres in both Asia and North America.

In 2015, DIFC launched its 2024 growth strategy, a blueprint for the next decade of growth of the financial hub. This strategy aims to stimulate trade and investment flows along the South-South economic corridor encompassing the Middle East, Africa, Southern Asia and Latin America.

Currently, 2,003 active registered companies operate from the Centre, with a combined workforce of 22,768 professionals.

DIFC continues to pursue expansion into new services and sectors within the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, an area comprising over 72 countries with an approximate population of 3 billion and nominal GDP of US$7.7 trillion.